On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:
> Rationale for this change is reflecting hopefully all raised concerns:
>
> -- UTF-8 encoding is a default value of storageEncoding attribute, so
> there is no need to repeat this in a note
>
> -- It has been pointed out that storage size mechanism is targeted for
> generating output resources that are loaded into various components and
> devices. Many of such devices are legacy and do not support UTF-8 so
> requiring UTF-8 support will not be aligned with the reality and will be
> artificial requirement.
Nevertheless, you could still add a note that encourages using it as
it's the only encoding that's non-problematic going forward and ports
across a wide variety of platforms. If there are still systems that do
not support utf-8, they better start figuring out a migration story.
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